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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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